ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
DEATH ON STEAMER. Thomas Harvey, married, forty-eight years of age, a trimmer on the Port Napier, was found ill just prior to reaching port. A wireless message was sent for a doctor, but on arrival life was extinct.—lnvercargill Association message. . GIRL COLLAPSES IN DENTAL ROOMS. After having teeth extracted at Mr 6. H. Burtenshaw’s dental rooms at Taumarunui yesterday afternoon a girl named Jessie Isabel Flett, aged fifteen, a daughter of Mr T. Flett, of Ongarue, collapsed and died. Dr W. E. Fisher administered an anaesthetic and left the dental rooms when the patient appeared to be recovering after the extractions, but he received an urgent telephone message to return and on his arrival at the dental rooms he found that the girl had collapsed and expired.—Press Association. FATAL COLLISION. At the inquest at Christchurch on Albert John Taylor a motor, cyclist who died on January 8 following a collision with a car driven by Arthur Morgan Stephens the coroner (Mr H. P. Lawry) passed a verdict of accidental death. The coroner said the evidence made it clear that it could not be said that Stephens was driving fast. It was quite clear that the cause of the accident was Taylor’s failure to see the car owing to the sun shining in his eyes.—Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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218ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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